SCREAM FACTORY ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF TWO RAT MOVIES Scream Factory continue to bring horror home to the masses and in May they will release two 1970’s rat movies on dual format DVD and Blu-ray. First up is the 1971 film WILLARD which has a release date of 16th May…
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Franchise Corner Entry: BLAIR WITCH THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT ***** USA 1999 Dir: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez. 87 mins It became very fashionable very quickly to be a naysayer with THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, following months of innovative viral marketing, festival word of mouth suggesting “Scariest film ever!” and a…
ANACONDA **** USA 1997 Dir: Luis Llosa. 85 mins One of several 1997 major studio monster movies (alongside THE RELIC and STARSHIP TROOPERS) that lavished decent money and stars on material that Roger Corman would have made into a 70 minute $60k flick in 1957 starring Beverly Garland and Dick…
JAWS ***** USA 1975 Dir: Steven Spielberg. 124 mins Streamlined from Peter Benchley’s tackier, bloodier novel, Spielberg’s trend-setting summer blockbuster is more monster movie than revenge-of-nature flick: this shark isn’t avenging anything; it’s just eating the cast because it’s a monster in a monster flick. Said shark is demonized by…